Predicting adverse postoperative outcomes in patients aged 80 years or older
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The prediction of adverse postoperative outcomes in patients 80 years of age or older has been studied in a retrospective cohort study of consecutive patients undergoing noncardiac surgery at two San Francisco teaching hospitals. The overall postoperative in-hospital mortality rate was 4.6% and 25% of the subjects developed adverse postoperative outcomes involving the pulmonary, cardiovascular or neurological system. It appears that events in the surgery are less significant than preoperative comorbidities.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
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Improving advance care planning: lessons from POLST
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A systematic approach to advance care planning processes can increase the likelihood that elderly patients will be asked what care they want and get it. Lessons can be found in experiences related to the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form and its use in the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) patients at Providence ElderPlace in Portland, OR, although observations are not entirely generalizable. It would be good to know why a disparity can be seen between results of treatment choices for level of medial intervention and those for not administering resuscitation, nutrition or antibiotics. 'Level of medical intervention' is more ambiguous than 'do not resuscitate.'
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
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The personal and social context of planning for end-of-life care
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The potential facilitators of or deterrents to end-of-life planning for community-dwelling older adults, including personal and social influences are examined involving. The findings indicate that many physicians are not talking with their patients about their end-of-life wishes and the propensity to have such discussions may relate more to the personal preferences and level of comfort of patients, physicians and family members than on the health status of the older adult.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2004
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